CANNIBALISM

Chef James Thomlinson has created a burger that you may not be tempted to taste. Made of veal, pork, chicken liver and marrow, this burger tastes like human flesh and has been created using first-hand accounts of cannibalism.
The controversial cannibal burgers will be served at a secret restaurant in...

As a vibrant, visual medium, documentaries usually succeed in portraying undiscovered or uncaredabout topics far better than a book or an article. A wellresearched and wellshot documentary can change the perception of a person, totally and irrevocably. The following list features some of the most chilling documentaries on a series...

Eleven people, including the owner of the restaurant, have been arrested in Nigeria for selling human flesh. The cops raided the eatery in Anambra after a tipoff that human flesh was being sold there. They found two fresh human heads when they swooped the restaurant.
The bloody and disembodied heads were...

Bangui (Central African Republic): The Central African Republic (CAR) which is witnessing the bloodiest sectarian violence has also seen cannibalism. According to some reports from the capital of the war torn country Bangui, there have been several instances of human flesh eating. But, an incident which has been captured live...

A suspected cannibal serial killer was arrested from a forest of Baran district in a joint operation by Rajasthan and Madhya Pradesh police team, the police said on Wednesday.
Acting on a tipoff by local villagers, the police arrested 35yearold Karan Singh Bheel on Tuesday from a forest adjoining Kawai village...

New York: A New York City police officer told investigators after his arrest that his online chats about cannibalism set him on a downward spiral that was wrecking his personal life, an FBI agent testified. Gilberto Valle "claimed he did not enjoy it and he did not know why he...

New York: The wife of a New York City police officer, on trial on charges that he conspired to kidnap, torture, kill and eat women, objected to a defence lawyer's characterisation of what she saw on her husband's computer as pornography. "It wasn't porn. That was dead people," 27-year-old Kathleen...

New York: The wife of a New York City police officer will testify at a federal trial to explain how she discovered that he was discussing kidnapping, killing and eating women. A judge outlined the parameters of Kathleen Mangan's testimony against her husband, Gilberto Valle, whose trial was beginning Monday.
Mangan...

New York: Prosecutors say a New York City police officer charged with seeking to kill and eat women hinted in an online chat that his wife might have been on the menu. Federal prosecutors said on Monday that Gilberto Valle engaged in a grisly Internet chat with a man who...

Tampa: First came Miami: the case of a naked man eating most of another man's face. Then Maryland, a college student telling police he killed a man, then ate his heart and part of his brain.
It was different in New Jersey, where a man stabbed himself 50 times and threw...

Sao Paulo: Two of the three suspects arrested for murdering, dismembering and eating their victims in the northeastern Brazilian state of Pernambuco made a home movie of their crimes, including the cannibalism scenes, media reports said.
Jorge Beltrao Negromonte da Silveira, a 51yearold actor, writer, musician and martial arts instructor, and...

Moscow: A 21yearold man in Russia has been charged with cannibalism, as police said he invited a stranger to his house, knifed him to death and then ate him. The incident took place in the Arctic city of Murmansk, investigators said.
Police believe the main motive for the crime was a...

Ranchi: A woman, accused of practising black magic, was killed and her body cut up, roasted and eaten by her murderers in Jharkhand's Gumla district, police said on Tuesday.
The woman, a widow identified as Aitwari Devi, 45, was killed at Nawgai village of Gumla district, around 140 Km from Ranchi,...

London: British royals who have long been famed for their love of lavish banquets and rich recipes also had a taste for human flesh, according to a book.
The book has revealed that British royals as recently as the end of the 18th century possibly swallowed parts of the human body.
The...

London: A man in Slovakia who placed an advertisement to seek a person who would agree to be killed, cooked and eaten has been arrested after his 'guest' had second thoughts and tipped off the police, it was reported here.
The suspected cannibal was arrested in Slovakia.
The Swiss man who answered...

Islamabad: Pakistani police have arrested a man and two women on charges of cannibalism after finding the body of a woman that was disinterred from a grave in their house, media reports said on Monday.
The trio was arrested in Kahawar Kalan village near Multan in Punjab province on Sunday after...

London: Ancient Britons indulged in cannibalism in fact, they not only ate each other but also made cups and bowls from the skulls of their victims, a discovery has suggested.
A team led by the Natural History Museum has made the gruesome discovery of the remains of three humans in...

London: Scientists have discovered that there's more than one way for older galaxies to stay young by cannibalising their smaller neighbours.
Astronomers studying an elderly elliptical galaxy, NGC 4150, have found that it is still producing stars despite its advanced age believed to be more than a billion...

Washington: Why do voracious predators like female spiders gobble up their smaller mates, especially after a bout of sex?
Researchers Shawn Wilder and Ann Rypstra of Miami University (Ohio) found that the answer may be simpler than thought.
Smaller size of the males determines their potential as a prey to be eaten....

Mexico City: A Mexican writer, suspected of frying and eating pieces of his exgirlfriend after strangling her, has confessed to murdering the woman, but denies being a cannibal, a government prosecutor said on Tuesday.
Police burst into Jose Luis Calva's Mexico City apartment last week and found fried human flesh...

New Delhi: The CBI investigations into the sexual abuse and gruesome murders of children in Nithari village, Noida, have finally reached somewhere.
A few days after taking over the case from the Noida Police, the CBI has ruled out cannibalism, saying that none of the accused Noidabased businessman Moninder Singh...